Indecency

I have been spending a great deal of time working out the details for the 'Ghost in the Machine' ongoing post, so there has not been much time to add anything new here. Ran across something so morally grotesque that I can not ignore.

The New Yorker ran an essay named The Black Sites which details many of the illegal and immoral activities that are happening in OUR name. That is you and I.

"The C.I.A.’s interrogation program is remarkable for its mechanistic aura. 'It’s one of the most sophisticated, refined programs of torture ever,' an outside expert familiar with the protocol said. 'At every stage, there was a rigid attention to detail. Procedure was adhered to almost to the letter. There was top-down quality control, and such a set routine that you get to the point where you know what each detainee is going to say, because you’ve heard it before. It was almost automated. People were utterly dehumanized. People fell apart. It was the intentional and systematic infliction of great suffering masquerading as a legal process. It is just chilling.'"

Note that the past tense is just a formality here - this process is still going on. A thing that I think is worth mentioning is a quote that seems to be receiving little attention:

A former C.I.A. officer, who supports the agency’s detention and interrogation policies, said he worried that, if the full story of the C.I.A. program ever surfaced, agency personnel could face criminal prosecution. Within the agency, he said, there is a “high level of anxiety about political retribution” for the interrogation program. If congressional hearings begin, he said, “several guys expect to be thrown under the bus.” He noted that a number of C.I.A. officers have taken out professional liability insurance, to help with potential legal fees.

These people are kidnapping and torturing other human beings. This has been designed and signed off from the highest possible level. These fucknuts will want to sat that they were only doing their jobs. That they are just patriotic americans doing their duty. I can not say this clearly enough:

Every one of these people needs to go to prison for the remainder for their remainder of their useless lives if and when found guilty by the justice system that they have systematically denied others. Every one. Every torturer, every doctor, every person who signed off or touched this program.

This sickens me.